Marcel.lí Antúnez

(Barcelona, 1959)

A multidisciplinary creator, he is one of the most relevant figures in electronic art and stage experimentation. He was founder of the company La Fura dels Baus in the 80s, later he focused on research into visual arts, video and interaction with technology. It configures a visual universe where the human body is roboticized and mechanics become fierce, its mechatronic performances take computer and electronic systems as ingredients. This is what he calls Sistematurgia, a dramaturgy of computational systems. He has received various awards, among others the following: First prize at the Etrange Paris Festival 1994, Best New Media Noveaux Cinéma Noveaux Médias Montreal 1999, Max Spain Prize 2001, FAD Prize 2001 Barcelona, Honorable Mention at Prix Ars Electronica 2003, Prize City of Barcelona in 2004.

Among his exhibitions and performances, those held at the MACBA in Barcelona (1999), Institute of Contemporary Arts in London (2000), Maison européenne de la photographie in Paris (2004), Digital Art Festival in Tokyo (2016) and Arts Santa stand out. Mònica de Barcelona (2014), among many others. In 2010 he began a long-term project that he calls Arsenale delle Apparizioni, and that includes performances and films presented at the Sitges Fantastic Cinema Festival (2011) or at the Barcelona Grec Festival (2012).

He has participated in Medialab Madrid within the framework of Banquete_05, with his work Transpermia, Hybrid Action that alternated performance, concert and conference, and which was structured in different modules. During the presentation Antúnez wore his Dreskeleton, a body interface of an exoskeletal nature, with which he sampled his voice, activated and modulated sounds, and controlled the films that were projected on two screens.